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Woman sentenced in attack on screener

November 02, 2005|By Items compiled from Tribune news services.

GREEN BAY, WISCONSIN — A woman accused of responding to an airport pat-down search by grabbing the screener's breasts and asking, "How would you like it if I did that to you?" was placed on 1 year of federal probation Tuesday.

U.S. District Judge William Griesbach also ordered that retired technical college teacher Phyllis Dintenfass, 63, of Appleton, complete 100 hours of community service and pay a fine of $2,000.

A jury convicted her in July of one count of assault on a federal employee.

Prosecutors said the incident happened in September 2004 when Dintenfass was getting the pat-down search while trying to board an airplane at Outagamie County Regional Airport at Appleton.